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La Mère de la Marquise

Note 60 — I

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chartreux; the Carthusian discipline is noted for its austerity. The order was founded by St. Bruno, in 1084, in the Grande Chartreuse, a wild mountain group near Grenoble. The members are forbidden to beg, and earn their living by hard work, their chief product being the famous liqueur.

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